Years 7–8

Desmos for Years 7–8 Mathematics

20 self-paced tutorials using Desmos mapped to the Australian Curriculum.

20video demos

6cpd hours

1certificate

About this course

Desmos for Years 7–8 Mathematics offers 6 hours of practical, curriculum-aligned professional development for teachers in Australia.

I am a teacher myself. I want this course to be useful and worth your time. So, I have sorted through the Achievement Standards, Content Descriptions and Elaborations of the Australian Curriculum (v9) for you and identified realistic opportunities for you to employ the Desmos Studio tools for teaching and learning.

As you make your way though, you will watch reasonably short videos of me creating and building with Desmos in real-time. I don't skip steps and I explain as I go. This "start from nothing" approach will develop your understanding of and your proficiency with the tools. In other words, I'm not just giving you a whole bunch of pre-made Desmos graphs and activities that you don't understand.

AITSL alignment

Standard 2.6

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) — Use effective teaching strategies to integrate ICT into learning and teaching programs to make selected content relevant and meaningful.

Standard 3.4

Select and use resources — Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning.

Sample content

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Course contents

Number and Algebra6 topics

Modelling financial contexts (Year 7)
Modelling measurement contexts (Year 8)
Using authentic data (Year 7)
Creating tables of values (Year 7)
Linear relations and models (Year 8)
Graphing inequalities (Year 8)

Measurement and Space8 topics

Applying angle relationships (Year 7)
Calculating areas and volumes (Year 7)
Representing objects in 2D (Year 7)
Transformations in the plane (Year 7)
Using Pythagoras' Theorem (Year 8)
Working with circles (Year 8)
Describing locations in 3D (Year 8)
Testing congruence and similarity (Year 8)

Statistics and Probability6 topics

Using statistical displays (Year 7)
Measuring central tendency (Year 7)
Interpreting summary statistics (Year 7)
Describing data distributions (Year 8)
Generating random distributions (Year 8)
Conducting probability simulations (Year 8)